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Article #5106Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
From: lackpurity
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:24
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:24
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On Mar 12, 12:10�pm, elizabeth <messageform...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On 9 Mar, 04:52, "Peter Farey" <pete...@rey.prestel.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > <benli...@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > > > > elizabeth wrote: > > > > > O was bawdy Elizabethan for orgasm. > > > > You have some evidence of this? It seems unlikely, given > > > that OED does not record "orgasm" at all in English until > > > some decades after Shakespeare's death, and then only in > > > the sense of a violent spasm. > > > You must understand that, being English, we refrained from > > any such practice until someone like Bob Grumman invented > > a word for it. Had we nevertheless shame-facedly contrived > > to produce any such condition we would naturally have > > referred to it onomatopoeically. > > > Peter F. > > <pete...@rey.prestel.co.uk> > > <http://www2.prestel.co.uk/rey/index.htm> > > That's way too witty for HLAS.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - He's witty all right. LOL Fact is, London's pop. went from 450,000 to 12,000,000 since Shakespeare's time. Some of it was immigration, but some was due to "some practice," until Bob Grumman came up with his word. LOL I believe it was in "As You Like It," that Shakespeare wrote "You couldn't keep them apart with clubs." Michael Martin
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